[astrange]

Housing has almost nothing to do with markets because Anglo countries run it by central planning. So they can't enter.

Construction is pretty high where it's been allowed.

As for food, it has fallen - eggs were high earlier this year and now aren't. This is mostly driven by gas prices and the occasional animal pandemic.

[Auracle]

Housing is (almost) just as bad in rural areas, where there's plenty of land to build new houses. It's just supply and demand.

[astrange]

This is supply and demand:

https://twitter.com/stuartbdonovan/status/166414741287168409...

Your new land has to be insurable, not in a fire/flood zone, get roads and utilities built out to it, and has to not already have local land-use busybodies zoning it R-1 or inventing brand new weird design requirements.

[nisegami]

>Your new land has to be insurable, not in a fire/flood zone, get roads and utilities built out to it, and has to not already have local land-use busybodies zoning it R-1 or inventing brand new weird design requirements.

At the same time, none of these things other than roads/utilities are a requirement in my country and housing is still rising in price much, much faster than anything else + wages.

[astrange]

They aren't requirements or you don't know they're requirements?

(Some countries like the UK don't have this because it's even _worse_. There are no written requirements of what's legal to build, because nothing at all is legal to build without convincing a planner to allow it.)